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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 153
Title:: Rithmus de Sancto Goderico; Reginald of Durham; Vita et Miracula Sancti Godrici
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Rithmus de Sancto Goderico. ff. 4r-74v: Reginald of Durham, Vita et Miracula Sancti Godrici; including St Godric’s hymn to the Virgin Mary (f. 26r) and St Godric’s prayer (f. 31r) in early Middle English. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [iii]verso: A note ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1590-1684
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 154
Title:: Genealogical and heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-90v: Genealogies of noble families. ff. 91r-93r: An index of names. Decoration: Coats of arms (‘tricks’) in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 155
Title:: The Visitacion of William Harvey alias Clarencieulx, Kinge of Armes of the Countie of Suffolke
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-73r: William Harvey, Clarenceux, The 'Visitacion of William Harvey alias Clarencieulx, Kinge of Armes of the Countie of Suffolke; begun the xxth day of October Anno iij Elizabethe Regine 1561'. Decoration: Coats of arms in black ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 156
Title:: William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; Chronicle of Thomas Rudburne Monke of Winchester
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-184v: William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; translated into English. ff. 185r-279r: ‘The Chronicle of Thomas Rudburne Monke of Winchester'; translated into English. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 279v: Doodles of antropomorphic and zoomorphic figures; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 157
Title:: Queen Anne of Denmark's Household Book
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript, with this title, inscribed on folio 3: 'A Declaration, or a most plaine & undoubted Cours, in what honorable manner the most Excellent, High-borne Queen Ann[e] Queen of Great Britaine etc. may mayntayne & keepe a most Royall-bountifull Howse for one whole Yeare; Her Maj...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1613
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 159
Title:: Parliamentary journal for 1623-1624, with other papers
Scope & Content:: Manuscript parliamentary journal compiled for Simonds D’Ewes, with preliminary pages constructed from a printed broadside, and two folios of unrelated notes. f. 1: Fragment (from an earlier flyleaf?) with manuscript Latin quotations on bravery in adversity and honourable defeat, from Tacitus, W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1623-1624
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 161
Title:: Collection of tracts and papers on Parliamentary affairs
Scope & Content:: Collection of papers in various hands. Contents: f. 1: List of peers of the realm. Headed: ‘Nomina Dominorum; a[nn]o 18 Jac. a[nn]o 1620. Die martis, die 30 Januarij’. January 1621. f. 2-27: Short notes and papers of Simonds D’Ewes, apparently used in his collected journals of Parliament (l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1620s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 162
Title:: Journal of the House of Commons, by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, Volume 1
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume titled ‘A Journall of the Parliament begunne Nov. 3. Tuesday ao.Dm. 1640. ao.16. Regis Caroli collected and gathered for the most part of it by me Sir Simonds D’Ewes of Stowhall in the Countie of Suffolke Knight and Baronett; being one of the Burgesses of the Towne and Bu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640-1642
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 162-166
Title:: Journal of the House of Commons by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, with various parliamentary papers
Scope & Content:: Five folio manuscript volumes containing a journal of the House of Commons which was collected and gathered, for the most part, by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, along with some parliamentary papers.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640-1648
Extent:: 5 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 163
Title:: Journal of the House of Commons, by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, Volume 2
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing a journal of the House of Commons which was collected and gathered, for the most part, by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. The journal begins on 6 April 1641, and ends 6 October 1642. The dates within the volume are not sequential. Before the entry for 6 April 1641, two fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640-1642
Extent:: 1 volume

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